Mahjong (1996)

Yang's second remake of Rebel Without A Cause, and probably his angriest film; every relationship is a transaction, the only world these kids know is making money and how they will make it. A group of charming young thugs befriend a lost girl from France because of the…

Neil Bahadur

"You thought the 19th century was the glorious age of Imperialism? Wait until you see the 21st century." Maybe the best movie of the 90s?

Neil Bahadur

Money means nothing in the face of death.

Mike Thorn

Cinema's greatest moral tale, whose discursive simplicity is perfectly illustrated by Yang's impossibly fluid mise en scène. The thing about this acid comedy, and the reason why it is one of my favorite films, is that everything that is discursive about it is conveyed by a…

Diogo Serafim

There are tens of thousands of Angelas in Hong Kong, but only one Virginie Ledoyen in Taipei.

Sean Gilman

"The 19th century was the glorious age of Imperialism, right? Just wait till you see the 21st century." Does a better time capsule of late 20th century Taiwan exist? Countless people riding a seemingly permanent high of growth and wealth, feeling unstoppable, only for it…

Ayush

Calling this one of the best movies of the 90's feels almost inaccurate, because this movie becomes much more relevant, provocative and frankly truthful to the present than it does to any time we know of in the 20th Century. For me, it's Yang's best film and as the film…

Neil Bahadur

“You still want more money? Don't we have enough?” As you grow older, you realise that money is the stupidest thing you could wish for.  In Yang's completely surreal MAHJONG, which combines five different languages to illustrate Taipei as a commodity-based world. Everyone…

darbs𓋹

The farce is the tragedy. This movie is the kind of joke you tell through clenched teeth, a futile attempt to undermine just how much you played yourself. Mahjong has no illusions about Taiwan’s place as the new imperialist frontier, the freshest pawn in an endless game of…

Avalyn Wu